George Zeller

(c. 1837 - 1862)
Home State: Louisiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 6th Louisiana Infantry

Before the Antietam Campaign:
He was a 24 year old butcher living in New Orleans when he enlisted in Company K of the 6th Louisiana Infantry in May 1861.

In the Antietam Campaign:
Mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September.

The remainder of the War:
Originally buried "East of J. C. Grove's warehouse, on hill near a new house" on the battlefield at Sharpsburg. Probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Burial information from Pruett1, with roster data from Booth2. At least two 1861 letters from Zeller to his family are in the Regimental files at the Antietam National Battlefield.

Place of Birth: New Orleans, LA
Death Date: 09/18/1862 Death Place: Sharpsburg, MD Burial Place: Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD

Notes

1 Pruett, Samuel, and Poffenberger & Good, Greg Farino and Western Maryland Regional Library (WMRL), Washington Confederate Cemetery, possible burials , Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010 [AotW citation 5046]

2 Booth, Andrew B., Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate Commands, 3 Volumes, New Orleans: State of Louisiana, 1920, Vol. 3, Pg. 1189 [AotW citation 5047]

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